I think this may be causing connection errors for users also (including myself) so am quite keen to get this sorted, although the load is under 1 so I am suprised by the un-responsiveness of the pages served, and the pings going out!

Thanks.

edit: Ok so I stopped the httpd service and it pings ok now.
So this error must occour becuase Apache is overloading the server?

Can anybody give me any advice as how to stop this happening? Maybe increase the amount of active connections?
Ta.